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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bukele isn't a very bright guy.  Rather than being at all diplomatic, he has insured that his country (if he is still in power) will not be looked at favorably by subsequent administrations.  Both Democratic and Republican (once they can get rid of the MAGA virus and other brain worms infecting the party).[/quote]

You are the one who isn't very bright. Bukele was invited to Trump's inauguration. You write "if he is still in power", without realizing he is actually the most popular president in the Western Hemisphere. In July 2024 Statista reported he has a 93% approval rate. The next highest leaders in Latin America are in Mexico and the Dominican Republic at around 63%. This has been independently verified with other polls. You have no idea of the history of El Salvador and how bad the conditions truly were to cause so many Salvadorans to support Bukele.

It starts with the United States funding a proxy war in El Salvador. First Kennedy sent military aid and advisors to support right wing dictators. In 1980 the Archbishop of El Salvador begged President Carter to halt military and financial support and for a regime that was using U.S. aid and weapons to murder civilians, union leaders, teachers, and church workers.  Romero was assassinated a month later.  The country was drawn into  12-year civil war between the U.S.-backed right-wing military junta and the leftist FMLN guerrillas. The US was giving a million dollars a day to El Salvador and 4 billion in total.

Refugees fled to the U.S., particularly to Los Angeles, fleeing violence, repression, and poverty. Many young Salvadorans arrived without families or their parents were so busy working so they were left alone after school in  gang-dominated neighborhoods. MS-13 gang was formed. Then these gang members were deported back to El Salvador where they recruited more members.

The US told El Salvador they should not incarcerate minors and continued to meddle. The gang member absolutely terrorized El Salvador. It became the murder capital of the world (think of how many arms were sent into El Salvador by the US during the Civil War). The country was ravaged by gang members killing, extorting, dealing drugs, raping, kidnapping, etc.  It was too dangerous to leave your house, ride on a bus, or have your kids play outside without constant fear. In 2015, El Salvador had a homicide rate of 105 per 100,000 people, In comparison Haiti's murder rate is under 50 and it is about 10 in the US. The amount of sexual violence against women was absolutely terrifying. It was impossible to run a business without paying off gang members.

Bukele was lawfully elected in June 2019. He declared Marshall Law (he has referred to himself as the World's Coolest Dictator), built a megaprison to house gang members and said gang members as well as  gang supports can be held for 20 to 30 years. El Salvador is now the safest country in the Western Hemisphere with a murder rate of under 2 per 100,000.  People can now leave their houses, kids play outside, business aren't being extorted, etc. For the first time since the Civil War the country is functioning.

So obviously there are human rights abuses but in what kind of society would you rather live? I am not sure what the answer is, but there aren't many El Salvadorans who care that a guy who wears a Chicago Bulls hat and Hoodie (the horns of the bulls are also the sign of MS-13) in Maryland and has a tattoo of a lion (read about the Latin Kings Royal Lion gang in Maryland) is in CECOT, the mega prison. I don't think many people know with certainty this guy's background. He was a union apprentice for less than a year. It could be he was an upstanding immigrant, or not. You don't always get an individual trial in El Salvador to prove your innocence if you are a gang member as mass trials have been held and you can be held there without a trial. The name of the mega prison is Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly known as CECOT, which in English is the Terrorism Confinement Center.

Just like the US engaged in a proxy war in US, Trump is now using El Salvador again instead of sending him to Guantanamo. They want to use this guy and others deported to CECOT as examples of what could happen if you don't self-deport.

It is a bit hypocritical that El Salvadorans are the Barbarians who "will not be looked at favorably by subsequent administrations" when we have our own version of CECOT called Guantanamo where plenty of people have been held without trials and tortured. [/quote]

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